Side event organized by the UNODC Justice Section, with the support of Norway and Vietnam, and the African Union, the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, the World Health Organization, and the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC) – and organised back-to-back with another UNODC side event entitled “No-one Left Behind: UNODC-WHO Programme on Drug Dependence …
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Side event: New Paradigm of Addiction Recovery – A Model of hope for overcoming the challenges in drug treatment recovery
Organized by Sri Lanka Wadih Maalouf, Drug Prevention and Health (UNODC): Working in prevention of drug use is prevention standards. Main paradigm for policy makers is to focus on individual and not the drug as the problem. Focus on individual means there is a science that can help him/her, no need to improvise, every single program …
Side event: The impact of COVID-19 on drug markets – one year later
Organized by the Programme Development and Management Unit of the UNODC Research and Trend Analysis Branch Moderator: This is the side event on the impact of COVID on drug markets, one year later. COVID has really changed our lives and also the way we’re working. It has resulted in actually more work because in addition …
Side Event: The impacts of COVID19 on young people’s drug use
Organized by the Students for Sensible Drug Policy with the support of Youth RISE Since the beginning of 2020, the world has been experiencing an unprecedented public health emergency, which has led to a dramatic shift in how young people live. The pandemic bore major consequences on how young people are experiencing their everyday and …
Side Event: Human Rights in Action: Implementing the International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy
Organized by the Office of the High-Commissioner for Human Rights with the support of Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Malta, Mexico, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Uruguay, and the Council of Europe, the European Union, the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Health Organization …
Side event: Inspiring community action in the rehabilitation and re-integration of offenders
Organized by Singapore with the support of the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section Valerie Chiang: Today many of the community of joined Singapore’s program to rehabilitate and reintegration. Our goal is for every inmate to have social support by the time they are released. The Yellow Ribbon project is a grassroots project, offering emotional …